Comment & Opinion

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar theme last week, delivering a prime-time address on election integrity that implied that many states all...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has a higher net approval rating among Republicans — and a much worse net approval rating among...

How often in life have you prepared to tackle a task only to realize you don’t have the right tool for the job? For instance, I used to think a simple...

Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain? Summer now comes with a checklist. What’s the temperature? ...

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — “The Odyssey” is on its own odyssey. The epic poem from ancient Greece about the mythical Ithacan King Odysseus’ ordeal getting ho...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In the push to regulate artificial intelligence, a dangerous idea is gaining ground in Washington: handing the government ownership s...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration canceled development on a new rocket launcher after already spending $1.4 billion on the project. Th...

There is no unilateral action that will bring the U.S.-led conflict with Iran to termination, and while both sides are incentivized in their own ways ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In an obituary in The Atlantic for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Robert Fontaine relates the following quotation from the late Republic...

The Pentagon has a well-deserved reputation for erring on the side of secrecy when classifying documents. Now it wants even more power to hide informa...

As our nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we should reflect on the values we share as a democr...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — It was my turn to gather with the church preschool children for monthly chapel time. Soon I would be in the sanctuary with three...

When families in Pennsylvania open their electric bills, they need an explanation for why electricity keeps getting more expensive. Come November, vot...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (TNS) — No morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. In June, the journal Nature declared that coffee is “critically threatene...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Almost two decades ago, when trillions of dollars in private housing debt proved unsustainable, governments had to step in to prevent...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For the past decade, Democratic progressives have regularly challenged the party’s establishment, with intermittent success. This y...

As of June 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was paying to store $2.9 million of rotten “super cereal” and $10 million of fo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania have been known as a cradle of industrialists, of quarterbacks and of robots. But for a period ...

This week, at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, U.S. Sen. David McCormick convened some of America’s top leaders, including President Trump, and ...

CHICAGO (TNS) — If we want to consider what’s possible for Ukraine, the people of Poland are living proof. They gained freedom from communist rule at ...